Weyl dimension formula

The dimension obtained by evaluating the Weyl character formula at the identity is

For a root system with $N$ positive roots, put $A_{\nu }(H)={\sum }_{w\in W}\det (w)e^{(w\nu ,H)}$. Its degree-$m$ Taylor coefficient is alternating separately in $\nu$ and $H$, and hence divisible in each set of variables by the product of positive-root linear forms. Thus it vanishes for $m<N$ and its degree-$N$ term is $C{\prod }_{\alpha >0}(\nu ,\alpha ){\prod }_{\alpha >0}(H,\alpha )$. The Weyl denominator formula at $\nu =\rho$ determines the nonzero constant $C$. Taking the ratio $A_{\lambda +\rho }(tH)/A_{\rho }(tH)$ for regular $H$ and letting $t\to 0$ gives the Weyl dimension formula $\dim L(\lambda )={\prod }_{\alpha >0}(\lambda +\rho ,\alpha )/(\rho ,\alpha )$. Factors converting roots to coroots cancel.

For the G2 root system with ${\alpha }_1$ short and ${\alpha }_2$ long, the fundamental weights are ${\omega }_1=2{\alpha }_1+{\alpha }_2$ and ${\omega }_2=3{\alpha }_1+2{\alpha }_2$. The positive coroots, relative to the simple coroots, have coordinates $(1,0),(0,1),(1,3),(2,3),(1,1),(1,2)$. The Weyl dimension formula therefore gives, for nonnegative integers $a,b$,The denominator is the product of the pairings of the Weyl vector with those coroots. The dimensions at ${\omega }_1,{\omega }_2,2{\omega }_1$ are seven, fourteen and twenty-seven.

For the C2 root system with its first simple root short, the irreducible highest-weight representation of highest weight $a{\omega }_1+b{\omega }_2$, where $a,b\in {\mathbb{Z}}_{\ge 0}$, has dimension